Attaching and detaching hubs and axles



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE. 1

R. D. MUNSON, OF WILLESVTN, VERMNT.

ATTACHING AND DETACHING HUBS AND AXLES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,995, dated January 2, 1849.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, R. D. MUNsoN, of Villiston, in the county of Chittenden and State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Forming Hubs of Carriage-I/Vheels and Attaching them to yAxles, and that the following is a full, clear,

and exact description of the principle or character which distinguishes them from all other things before known and of the usual manner of making, modifying, and using'the same, reference being had to the accompanying dra-wings, which illust-rates the same, in which- Figure l, is ay section through the hub and axle Fig. 2, is a view of the parts separated. The same letters are used to designate like parts in both figures.

The nature of my improvement consists in covering the1 end of the hub of a carriage wheel permanently, so as to entirely exclude the dirt by an immovable cap, and at the same time furnish a ready means for disengaging the wheel from the axle, withoutrendering it liable to come ott' accidentally.

The construction is as follows The hub (a) and axle (b) are in form like those 'in ordinary use; the axle has a thread cut on its outer end, onto which a nut (c) screws;v this nut is round, as shown at Fig. 2, (o) and fits into the recess (65,) in the hub; in or near the edge of the nut there is one or more holes hole, and down intothe hole (e) in the nut,

whichA will cause the nut to turn Vwith the f hub and thereby, turning theewheel backward, it is detached; when the wheel is again put on, the pin is removed, and the screw inserted in the band, the hub thenplays aro-und the nut without turning it. As a modication, ahole might be made in the f face of the cap, at (lo), and also in the nut opposite, which would answer nearly the same purpose, said holes being covered with a stopper. Y f

Having thus methodA of forming hubs of carriage wheels,

and attaching them to axles, what I claim therein as new and for which I desire to secure Letters Patent, ise e The employment of the solid cap and circular nut combined, and arranged as herein described.A i

E. D.k Munson.

Witnesses: v v

WM. GREENOUGH, J. J. GREENOUGH.

fully described my improved 

